"And what is it I'm supposed to have wrote... written!"

[raven]

If I weren't taken, and he weren't asexual, I would go out and blatantly proposition zeta_of_s right now.

What? I'm just saying.

In other news, I have noticed that my pathetic status as fandom nobody has hit a new low. If I still had a hotmail account rather than having Gmail grouping all my email as conversations, I would have had nearly a hundred comment notifications in the last three days. I'm rather enjoying how chatty everyone has been lately. If any of you lovely people are secretly wishing I'd shut the hell up about the fandom stuff, you've got to understand I don't have a real life at the moment. It ended the very second I stepped out of school after the leavers' lunch - all the time since has been spent in the endless daylights and quasi-normality that make up study leave. My world is defined by the oxidation states of cobalt and the electoral college in Colorado, haem complexes and Shakespeare's subversion of spoken convention, and occasionally the magpies flitting around the garden and the sunlight through the trees, because I tend to find there's nothing like revision to make you focus on the beauty of the world around you.

So instead of not posting at all, I am posting about fandom. And music, because I finally got around to updating my iPod and listening to music that isn't the Goo Goo Dolls or the Indigo Girls. At the moment, it's Damien Rice. I liked Cannonball, mainly because of the beautiful video, but The Blower's Daughter is just gorgeous. It's hauntingly done, with ethereal vocals against strings and a strange unaccountable female voice at the end.

And, Coldplay! I got X&Y from a source who wishes to remain unnamed, and I'm very grateful to her - Speed of Sound is beautiful and I'm sure I'll love the rest. Strangely enough, I don't have either Parachutes or A Rush of Blood to the Head. I may rectify the latter once I have time and/or money.

Sigh. Lack of money is a sore spot at the moment, as I'm gleefully turning down all the weekday work Tony is waving in my direction in favour of revision. Which isn't to say I don't love my job, I just can't do it at the moment. I had a good day on Saturday, what with irate Irishwomen, old Mrs Knock (she meets a friend on the street outside, hears that they've had a bad day, and just gives them the book it took three months for us to order and we're back to square one) and a woman who handed me the strangest-looking book I've ever seen. It had tooth-marks. "The dog got it!" she said. "Can you get me a replacement before my daughter finds it?"

I found her a copy, took a pound off and watched her go, shaking my head.

And then there was the six foot five man who sidled in, looked wildly around him, came up close to the counter and whispered, "Do you know anything about..." shuffle, shuffle, "...Doctor Who?"

"Believe me," I said sincerely, "you've come to the right place."

I sold him the three Ninth Doctor tie-in novels and the Discontinuity Guide. It's a pity I don't work on commission.

But no work for me this week. I'm going to school tomorrow, because I have lost my mind. I plan to revise AS Chemistry (yes, all of it in one day) but whether this will actually happen is a more difficult point.

Bedtime. I have to actually get up tomorrow.

[One example of a condition caused by a frame shift mutation is phenylketonuria, when the enzymes that convert phenylalanine into tyrosine have disrupted tertiary structure; the result is a metabolic block where phenylalanine and related compounds built up and prevent childhood brain development.]

Comments

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

He's already been bagsied by me =p

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I'll share. ;)

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Psst... if you've got broadband, I can zip up Parachutes and upload it for you. Swapsies? I don't have X&Y. I know I've got A Sudden Rush of Blood to the Head too, but it doesn't seem to be in my music folder. Mind you, I found Parachutes in the Travis folder, so it might be here somewhere.

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

No, back off. If he ever decided he wanted to become sexually active in any way then there's no way I'd share.
He makes my heart flutter & I am in dreamlove with him.
Though, if that happened I'd die of shock, but y;know, whatever.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I should be off to bed now. *hits self* I'll take your email address off your profile and send you X&Y tomorrow morning (I do have broadband). Do we have a deal? [/end Deep Throat]

[manynames.livejournal.com]

I've got A Rush Of Blood To The Head uploaded as we speak, if you don't mind the shocking illegality of it all!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I would continue the argument ('cause, come on, he's Stephen Fry only much more attractive) but it's a moot point considering he's asexual and you and I are both very much of the taken.

*clings to him anyway*

[manynames.livejournal.com]

Here (http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0K39EDO6YT5UA1B38IV6TXPA6Z)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

source who wishes to remain unnamed

Ahem. *points*

I'll take you up on it tomorrow, if I may. It really is bedtime!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Yep, thank you, zipping up Parachutes now.

[manynames.livejournal.com]

It's different when it's an album you can't buy, or so I like to tell myself, having uploaded X&Y at least three times over the last five days!

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

I know *coughs*but I'm sure I'd find myself single if he were willing*coughs*, plus, I doubt he'd want me because of how much I pester him.
*but I knew him first*

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

*stealage* Merci xx

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

*pssssssst* check my journal... fic finished. :)

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

Whee! Zipped, uploaded, and e-mailed :)

[amchau.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to e-mail you properly rather than doing the lj-comment thing, but somehow it isn't working. Do you want the full explanation regarding the PTD (portable telephonical device-- much better sounding than "fone") from which I texted you, or are you content with a slight mystery? When did 'text' become a verb? My first exam is tomorrow, and I need distactions or I shall make my brain explode with epics.

[cedara]

And then there was the six foot five man who sidled in, looked wildly around him, came up close to the counter and whispered, "Do you know anything about..." shuffle, shuffle, "...Doctor Who?"

*giggles*

Too charming.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Text became a verb in, oh, 1999. *pets you* I would like to know if I'm free to text you, or if the mystery prevents me from doing so.

Email would be good. I wish I had the time to keep up with it, actually; at the moment LJ is my main method of communication. I'll have to think of something that is not epic to distract you with.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Aww, I know. I've seen people buy porn with more confidence than that!

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

Random question I know but where do I put my fic?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Post it in your own journal, give me the link and I'll add it to the masterlist.

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

Okay dokey here we go

http://www.livejournal.com/users/eternalwings/49768.html

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

I noticed that the Pritchard's in Crosby had porn. I shuffled over & pretended to look at the shelves below whilst really attempting to see what was on offer.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

You can send me a text message (*is still living in 1998*) if you don't mind my mother and brother being able to read it as well. So feel free to, but please mind their comfort zones. "Hi, how are you?" is cool, as is "Am in Yemen, Chandler slashy, fish good for brains", but "Jack and Daniel are so have teh buttsex!" is going to take me a lot of explaining, and possibly cause brain explosions.

Today's epic exam is, thankfully, over, and the next one isn't until the 15th; but there's RS and English to be distracted from. (You're doing the English papers, right? Talk and the synoptic booklet?)

Random quotes?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Sorry it took so long! X&Y (http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2HCPAIS4FRSCO0M2BDEPXLRDZB).

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

No problem, did you get Parachutes okay? According to my f-list, gmail his being a little twitchy this week.